Ray
Krone
MARICOPA
COUNTY, AZ10 YEARS IN PRISON,
4 OF THEM ON DEATH ROW;
EXONERATED IN 2002
In April 2002 Krone,
now 64, became known
as the 100th man to
be exonerated from
death row. He’d been
convicted of murdering
a 36-year-old bar man-
ager who was killed
in a bathroom of a
Phoenix lounge that
Krone frequented.
Krone had given her
a ride to a party a few
days earlier. DNA at
the crime scene went
untested; the prose-
cution relied on faulty
bite-mark evidence.
When the DNA was
submitted as evidence
in a retrial, Krone was
cleared. The actual killer
identified by the DNA
was already in prison
for sexually assaulting
and choking a seven-
year-old girl.